Wildlife Conservation Leasing Demonstration

The objjectives of the project are: (a) Integrated management of the Nairobi NP ecosystem, including maintenance of critical migratory routes and dispersal areas; arresting and reversing current destructive trends of land sale and partitioning, attempts at cultivation and sale; (b) Improve well-being, livelihoods and security of local households (reducing vulnerability to drought) through provision of a modest but reliable income stream that is not vulnerable to drought; Increase interest and capacity of local communities to engage in biodiversity-compatible enterprises; (c) Demonstrate the ecological, economic and social soundness of wildlife conservation leases as a conservation tool in pastoralist areas, and its applicability in other priority areas in East Africa, and (d) establish a supportive knowledge, policy and institutional environment for achievement of the project’s direct and indirect conservation goals over the longer term.